Nurse Practitioner- Advanced Practice Provider

Description

Company : Oak Street Health

Title : Nurse Practitioner- Advanced Practice Provider

Location : Commerce City center

Company Description

Oak Street Health believes everyone deserves great healthcare the kind you’d want for your own family. We specialize in providing exceptional care for older adults on Medicare, often in underserved communities where there is little or no quality healthcare.

Oak Street Health is on a mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be with an innovative care model that centers on wellness-based, positive health outcomes for patients, not the volume of services provided.

Our unwavering commitment to keeping patients healthy is highlighted by dedicated care teams that take time to get to know each individual, providing the personalized care they need to stay healthy and live life more fully.

We’re an organization on the move! Our rapidly growing national network of primary care centers is staffed by a team of outstanding care providers, service team members, technologists, community outreach experts, business professionals, and more.

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Role Description :

Our Care Teams include a doctor, a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant, medical assistants, a scribe, and support from registered nurses and care managers.

At Oak Street Health, Physician Assistants (PAs) are integral members of our Care Teams. PAs see patients independently and collaborate with doctors, depending upon the patient’s specific situation.

PAs provide longitudinal care and build meaningful patient relationships; this creates trust and helps our patient understand and feel connected to his / her care plan.

Together this team is responsible for providing and coordinating care for an intimate panel of patients in our neighborhoods.

While the typical primary care panel in the . is around 2,500 patients for a single provider, our panels at Oak Street Health are around 500-750 for a team.

This creates an opportunity to spend more time with patients, build deeper relationships, and to better execute / coordinate care plans.

PAs practice in our outpatient practices. We partner with a network of elite specialists and hospitals for specialty and acute care.

As such, our PAs, in collaboration with our doctors, focus on care within the clinic : primary care, care coordination, and population health.

Core Responsibilities :

Provision of exceptional primary care.

Office visits for routine and acute issues.

Annual wellness visits and health risk assessments, which require a holistic view of health and a focus on thoughtful, accurate, and specific documentation.

Care coordination with other providers, specialists, testing facilities, agencies.

Population health leadership, in coordination with the Care Team (., making sure all eligible women get their evidence-based breast cancer screening every 2 years).

Phone triage and outreach.

Patient education.

Oak Street Health promotional activities.

Home visits as needed.

Other duties, as assigned.

This role reports to the Center Medical Director and works closely with operational leadership.

What are we looking for?

Physician Assistants with experience in primary care : internal medicine, geriatrics, or family medicine.

Experience with risk adjustments and / or home assessments.

Understands HCC (Hierarchical Condition Categories) documentation, ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases-10) Coding, and Health Risk Assessments (HRAs).

Active, non-probationary state PA license.

National certification as a Physician Assistant through NCCPA.

Genuine passion for primary care. (Done well, the practice of medicine should be

Intrinsically motivated and prefer to work hard.

Embrace teamwork and the opportunity to collaborate with brilliant colleagues.

Want to be a part of an innovative model focused on empirically-guided population health.

Spanish language skills are strongly preferred, depending on clinic location.

US Work Authorization.

Someone who embodies being Oaky .

What does being Oaky look like?

Radiating positive energy

Assuming good intentions

Creating an unmatched patient experience

Driving clinical excellence

Taking ownership and delivering results

Being scrappy

Why Oak Street?

Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as :

Collaborative and energetic culture

Fast-paced and innovative environment

Competitive benefits including paid vacation and sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, and health benefits